The research area of metamaterials has captured the imagination of scientists and engineers over the past two decades by allowing unprecedented control of electromagnetic fields. The extreme manipulation of fields has been made possible by the fine spatial control and wide range of material properties that can be attained through subwavelength structuring.
Research in this area has resulted in devices that overcome the diffraction limit, render objects invisible, and even break time-reversal symmetry. It has also led to flattened and conformal optical systems and ultra-thin antennas.
This seminar will identify recent advances in the growing area of metamaterials, with a focus on metasurfaces: two-dimensional metamaterials. The talk will explain what they are, the promise they hold, and how these field-transforming surfaces are forcing the rethinking of electromagnetic/optical design.
Anthony Grbic is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan. He received his B.A.Sc., M.A.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto, in 1998, 2000, and 2005. Prof. Grbic’s research interests include engineered electromagnetic structures (metamaterials, metasurfaces, electromagnetic band-gap materials, frequency-selective surfaces), antennas, microwave circuits, wireless power transmission, and analytical electromagnetics/optics. Anthony Grbic is a Fellow of IEEE and has received several recognitions for his research work including the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, an AFOSR Young Investigator Award, and an NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award. He also received an Outstanding Young Engineer Award from the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society and a Booker Fellowship from the United States National Committee of the International Union of Radio Science.
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